The Mountain Minute: 9/4/2025

🎧 Mountain Minute – September 4
Politics may be local, but Colorado’s local battles are piling up into a statewide reckoning. Here’s your sharp, unfiltered roundup.

Colorado News:
🔹 Space Command exit – Trump’s reported relocation of U.S. Space Command to Huntsville could cost Colorado Springs billions in jobs and defense investment.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/space-command-exit-shows-economic-cost-of-political-games-in-colorado/

🔹 Green code squeeze – New building mandates are driving up housing costs while doing little for the climate, builders warn.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/colorados-green-building-code-mandates-drive-up-housing-costs-and-do-little-for-the-climate/

🔹 Small business sidelined – At Air Quality Commission hearings, activists got the mic while small business voices were shut out of decisions.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/colorados-air-quality-control-commission-hearings-show-how-small-business-voices-are-shut-out/

🔹 Fort Morgan struggles – HGTV glitz can’t mask small-town decline, as locals blame state policies for driving jobs and young families away.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/hgtv-cant-save-small-town-america-fort-morgan-proves-it/

🔹 Gun ban lawsuit – Colorado’s sweeping semiautomatic weapons ban faces a constitutional challenge in court.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/colorado-semiautomatic-firearm-law-met-with-lawsuit-from-gun-rights-group/

🔹 TABOR under fire – Progressives are pushing a graduated income tax plan critics say guts taxpayer protections.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/colorado-liberal-coalition-seeks-to-unwind-tabor-with-graduated-income-tax-plan/

🔹 Gardner’s new role – Former Senator Cory Gardner will lead one of the nation’s most powerful internet and TV associations.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/cory-gardner-chosen-to-lead-powerful-internet-and-tv-association/

🔹 MAHA momentum – The “Make America Healthy Again” movement is uniting unlikely conservative allies around clean food, air, and water.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/from-hunting-to-fitness-how-maha-unites-unlikely-allies-in-colorado/

National News:
🔹 Trump on ballots – He says Colorado’s ballot system was a “big factor” in his Alabama win, spotlighting mail-in rules as 2026 looms.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/president-trump-colorados-ballot-system-a-big-factor-in-alabama-win/

🔹 Gen Z challenge – A new report warns conservatives are losing ground with young voters, even as they win policy fights.
Read more: https://rockymountainvoice.com/2025/09/03/conservative-message-struggles-as-gen-z-buys-into-democratic-narrative/

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